| village | (noun) a community of people smaller than a town | Synonyms: settlement, small town |
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| (noun) a settlement smaller than a town | Synonyms: hamlet |
| villainage | (noun) the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf | Synonyms: villeinage |
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| villeinage | (noun) tenure by which a villein held land | - |
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| (noun) the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf | Synonyms: villainage |
| vintage | (noun) the oldness of wines | Synonyms: time of origin |
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| (noun) a season's yield of wine from a vineyard | - |
| visage | (noun) the appearance conveyed by a person's face | Synonyms: countenance |
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| (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, kisser, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler |
| voltage | (noun) the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts | Synonyms: electric potential, potential, potential difference, potential drop |
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| (noun) the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts | Synonyms: electromotive force, emf |
| vouge | (noun) a kind of pike used by foot soldiers in the 14th century | - |
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| voyage | (noun) a journey to some distant place | - |
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| (noun) an act of traveling by water | Synonyms: ocean trip |
| wage | (noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: earnings, pay, remuneration, salary |
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| wastage | (noun) anything lost by wear or waste | - |
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| (noun) the process of wasting | - |
| wattage | (noun) the product of voltage and current | Synonyms: electric power, electrical power |
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| webpage | (noun) a document connected to the World Wide Web and viewable by anyone connected to the internet who has a web browser | Synonyms: web page |
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| wedge | (noun) something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them | - |
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| (noun) a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object | Synonyms: chock |
| (noun) a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe | Synonyms: wedge heel |
| (noun) (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole | - |
| (noun) a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation | Synonyms: hacek |
| (noun) a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States | Synonyms: bomber, Cuban sandwich, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, zep |
| (noun) any shape that is triangular in cross section | Synonyms: cuneus, wedge shape |
| weighbridge | (noun) platform scale flush with a roadway for weighing vehicles and cattle etc | - |
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| wharfage | (noun) a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats | Synonyms: dock, pier, wharf |
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| (noun) a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay | Synonyms: quayage |
| windage | (noun) the deflection of a projectile resulting from the effects of wind | Synonyms: wind deflection |
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| (noun) exposure to the wind (as the exposed part of a vessel's hull which is responsible for wind resistance) | Synonyms: wind exposure |
| (noun) the space between the projectile of a smoothbore gun and the surface of the bore of the gun | - |
| (noun) the retarding force of air friction on a moving object | - |
| wreckage | (noun) the remaining parts of something that has been wrecked | - |
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| yardage | (noun) distance measured in the aggregate number of yards | - |
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